Which are the emphatic pronouns? & How do we use 'each other’?

By Ranjana S.

Emphatic pronouns:

Liza and Rogers are decorating their Christmas tree themselves.

An emphatic pronoun is a word like 'myself', 'yourself'.

Here the emphatic pronoun means 'without any help'.

• Liza and Rogers are decorating their Christmas tree without help from anyone else.

• Look at the following examples:

• The manager himself welcomed us to the hotel.( The manager welcomed us, not someone else.)

•  Although she is very rich, the Queen herself never carries any money.

• The house itself is small, but the garden is enormous.

• Of course the children have been to the zoo. You yourself took them there last year.

Here the emphatic pronoun comes after the noun or pronoun it relates to.

 

Each other:

Look at this example:

Anne and Jason help each other with their homework.

This means Jason helps Anne, and Anne helps Jason.

Maria and Pedro aren't really friends. They don't like each other much.

I'm still in touch with Jessica. We write to each other.

One another has the same meaning:

We send each other /one another New Year cards every year.

We can also use the possessive form each other's.

Tim and Frida wrote each other's phone numbers.

This means Tim wrote down Frida's number, and Frida wrote Tim's number.